What a buyer sees
PFS GLOBAL SERVICES UK LIMITED
Information technology consultancy activities · Southampton · 03616118
95staff · FY2023
28years trading
—oldest owner on file
£1.6Mcash at bank
Your turnover is on public record
filed£20Mfor the year to 2023
Unusual at this size, and it works in your favour: a buyer is reading your number rather than guessing at one.
What your filings show moving
Staff95
2021152 → 952023
Cash at bank£1.6M
2021£1.0M → £1.6M2023
How you sit in your trade
slowest tenth typical fastest tenth youSales per employee£214,619in the middle half
£88,538£165,753£383,345
Debtor daysdays81in the top quarter
2662100
Creditor daysdays46
82457
Stock daysdays0below almost all
723198
Each spread is companies in the same trade and size that did publish a turnover. Creditor days are shown but not marked: neither end of that one is plainly good.
What a buyer would ask 4
- The newest accounts on file are 32 months oldAnyone looking at the company today is reading a year that has already ended. Whatever has improved since is invisible.
- Headcount fell from 152 to 95A buyer sees the fall and not the reason. Deliberate tightening and losing people look identical on a filing.
- Debtor days run high for your tradeYours is 81 against 62 for the middle of 87 comparable companies. That gap is working capital a buyer has to fund on day one, and it comes off the price.
- No website on file against the companyThe first thing anyone does with a company number is look for the business behind it. Finding nothing is its own answer.
What a buyer would like 2
- 28 years of trading on fileLongevity is the cheapest evidence there is that the business is not one contract.
- Stock days better than three quarters of your tradeYours is 0 against 23 for the middle of 59 comparable companies.
What the register says
Owners
Nobody recorded with significant control.
Directors
- 55since 2023
- since 2023
- 50since 2025
| Year to | Turnover | Staff | Cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-12-31 | £20M | 95 | £1.6M |
| 2021-12-31 | £20M | 152 | £1.0M |
A rough bracket, and why it is only that
1–3× sales£20M£61M
The turnover range is fitted on UK companies that did file one. The multiple is a published sector average from Dutch mid-market deals, not from your own numbers and not from your own market. Treat this as the opening bracket of a conversation, not a valuation.